When The Mayans Came To America

Their complex societies include advanced architectural works in the buildings of their pyramids and home all without the use of a wheel or machinery and built on the backs of human labor. A great example of this would be the Incan city of Machu Picchu. Additionally, their mathematical skills and astronomical calculations is astounding since their accuracy is verified in modern times. The Olmec’s were first to establish such calendar according to appropriate farming seasons and would later be adopted by the Mayans who will come to perfect their calculations and calendar. One common denominator for all of these complex societies was their large-scale agriculture production especially in corn or maize. Depending on their geography they cultivated their crops differently. The Aztecs created chinampas that allowed the lake water to irrigate their crops, whereas the Inca people farmed on terraced land within the mountains or the Olmec’s who built aqueducts to irrigate their

a. The cultivation of maize, introduced heavily by sophisticated civilizations such as the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs, helped to feed large population sizes, thus facilitating the spread of its cultivation across North America. By 2000 BCE, Pueblo peoples, due to the new cultivation of maize, developed irrigation systems. By 1000 CE, maize reached to modern-day SE America, which influenced Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee peoples by growing and feeding their populations.

“The engineers showed great cleverness and skill in supplying water for the crops, since only scattered sections of the land could grow corn. For this reason, they endeavored to increase its fertility as much as possible.” This was a quote from Garciasco de la Vega, a son of a Spanish explorer and an Incan princess, which described a method of farming in the Incan empire in 1539. The three most advanced civilizations were the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Incas. All three civilizations made major accomplishments, all being added upon and used by other civilizations. For example, the Mayans had created a calendar with three hundred sixty-five and a quarter days. The Incas had created terrace farming to create better and a larger amount of

There are three groups, the Mayans, the Inuits, and the colonial Americans. The Mayans had two creators. The Intuits had one creator. The colonial Americans, also known as the pilgrims has one God. The creators and God are important because it showed them how they believed how the world started. All the people worship their “creator/ God” because they think they put them there for a reason. For the Inuits, the creator is a raven that is half human half bird.” He had the powers of both a man and bird, and could change from one to the other simply by pulling his bead above his head as one lifts up a mask”. For the Mayans the creator’s names are Tepeu the Maker and Gucumatz the Feathered Spirit.For the pilgrims, their creator is

The Ice Age froze most of the oceans into glaciers and the lowered sea levels uncovered a bridge connecting Eurasia and North America. Animals that migrated crossed this bridge and Asian hunters followed them into N.A.People kept coming in via the Bering land bridge for 250 years.

Before Christopher Columbus came and found the Americas. About 14,000 years ago there was a land bridge connected by Siberia and Alaska. But due to the last ice age water levels had been increasing. This led to the land bridge going under water. Now fast forward 14,000 years later Christopher Columbus had reached as what was known as the New World in 1492. When they discovered there were many native people on this land. Native American tribes were all over the place. Well two of the biggest tribes were the Incas and the Aztec people who each had over 25 million people in their tribe.

Their greed and the development of the caravel, a ship that could sail more closely into the wind, and the discovery that they could return to Europe from the African coast put the Europeans in grasp of their quest to Africa. They had no real access to sub-Saharan Africa until the Portuguese navigators made their way down the African coast in

Everyone knows that the Maya, Aztec, and Inca were advanced societies. These empires were able to make great developments in their time. Some of their most impressive contributions include the growing of crops, master craftsman and tradesman, system of communications, and a hierarchical ruling system. The text states in Source 1 ‘’The Maya cities grew their own food, but they also shared goods with each other including salt, shells, cotton, and corn’’.

Each of these societies economies for the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans, the Aztecs farm corn, beans, tomatoes, squash on chinampas. For the Mayans, they farm corn, beans and squash, for trade.

The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all grew maize, beans, and squash, but, the Maya, Aztecs, and the Inca had different crops as well. The Maya also grew Chili Peppers, but, the Incas don’t. The Aztec grew tomatoes and they also grew chiles like the Maya. The Aztec would also make Tamales(cornmeal dough combined with beans and veggies, wrapped in corn husks and steamed to prepare), but, none of the other tribes didn’t. The Inca grew many crops like coca, grains, potatoes, sweet potatoes, ulluco, oca, mashwa, pepper, peanuts, cashews, cucumber, quinoa, gourd, cotton(yep, they grew cotton) talwi, carob, chirimoya, lucuma, guayabo, and avocados. That is a lot of

. two million years ago an ice age swept across the world, North America was part of it, it transformed and shaped the way North America looks today, as the glaciers began melting 10,000 years ago new lakes and rivers became present, such as the Great Lakes that still remain enormous today

Marco Polo went on a 20 year voyage to what he thought was Asia and returned with stories of the mysterious land that further pushed Europeans to find a new trade route. Before the 15th century sub Saharan Africa was unknown to Europe. However; due to new and improved ships the journey became more plausible. Portuguese quickly set up trading posts for gold and enslaved African. Slave trading soon became big business. And finally Portuguese sailor Vasco de Gama made it to India around the tip of Africa in 1498. Meanwhile the unification in Spain inspired them to also look for a

The Mayans civilization is believed to be one of the world's most intriguing civilization on Earth. The Mayans originated around 2600 B.C. in Yucatan. They were mostly known for their classical civilizations in Mesoamerica. They were never unified as one but rather consisted of numerous different cities, each of the cities apparently had their own king. The indigenous people of Mexico soon rose to prominence around A.D 250. Some of the countries they rose to prominence would be modern day Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador and northern Belize. The Mayan civilization was superior to the Aztec and Inca civilization in sections of astrology, agricultural methods, and architecture.

Mayan civilization underwent massive developments in agriculture and within their society. According to historian Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Maya Maize agricultural practices have remained the same as they were over three thousand years ago. (Morley 128) A uncomplicated process of felling the forest, burning dried trees and bushes, planting, and switching up the spots of the cornfields every few years. This system is known as the milpa agriculture, pulled from the Aztec word for cornfield. Agricultural tools were fire-hardened, the Maya xul, a pointed planting stick, the baat, a stone axe, chim, a fiber bag for carrying the seed corn. At first, they used sticks to punch holes into the ground, but progressively obtained more advanced farming techniques. Their main crops they grew were maize (corn), beans, squash, avocados, chili peppers, pineapples, papayas, and cocoa, which was used for

The Mayans; one of the first peoples to ever live, grow, and thrive on and around the land of modern day Guatemala, the highlands and lowlands of Mesoamerica. Whether it be their numerous inventions, their culture, their social structure, or their way of life, the Mayans constantly seemed to be wiser than most empires around them. The Mayan advances in mathematics, communication, astronomy, architecture, and farming were superior for their time and continue to influence modern day living. The Mayans were pretty much centered in a singular geographical “hub”, almost having complete control over modern day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Yucatan Peninsula.